Flagmen of the ApocalypseNew Sculpture by Peter Walker

Walker is a painter and sculptor who lives in Bayswater, Nova Scotia. The Flagmen, a series of freestanding welded and assembled sculptures (1998-2000), are his millennium project.

Built from scrap steel and wrecker's yard scroungings, they display the artist's fusion of surreal aesthetics with a rural handyman's inventiveness and a lapsed Catholic's taste for the macabre. Several are studded with beach cobbles and equipped with wheels, combining the testicular with the vehicular. Walker's anthropomorphic constructions offer a doomster parody of the machismo exemplified by David Smith's mid-20th-century sculpture. The Flagmen are exhibited with paintings representing a South Shore vision of the apocalypse.